Down In Portugal

Down In Portugal
1 Dreams Run Wild lyrics
2 Down In Portugal lyrics
3 Heavyweight Woman lyrics
4 Sweet Marie lyrics
5 Trouble lyrics
6 Don’t Be So Mad lyrics
7 A Night In Babylon lyrics
8 Strange Way To Live lyrics
9 Colombia lyrics
10 Fly lyrics

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March 19, 2021
FAME Music
Friedhelm Mund, Jakob Schmitt, Eric Kroeber
Eric Kroeber
Dreams Run Wild
Ride on that midnight special
The train is going south
The noble lady booked an extra seat for her cat so you can’t sit down
She makes your dreams run wild

The moon is sending pale light
The curtain‘s red and thick
A spy is in the darkness and he knows what you’ve been doing every bit
He makes your dreams run wild

But we don’t care about tomorrow 
We only care about tonight as long as our dreams run wild

Shake up your heavy heart
Dance some tango with me darling
The crooner‘s voice is touching my emotions in a way that makes me jive
He makes my dreams run wild

The cops don’t care about tomorrow 
They only care about tonight
Oh I’m longing for your kisses
As I suppose you long for mine
I want my dreams to run wild

I harvest my emotions
Put them on a tray
Drink a glass of water to refill what I’ve been sweating out today
To make my dreams run wild

I don’t care about tomorrow 
I only want to be alive
I don’t wanna be persuaded
Or taken onto some dark side
I want my dreams runnin' wild

I don’t wanna be no policeman
Nor some ordinary bride
Yes I wanna be an actress
With her wisd' and beauty shining bright
I want my dreams runnin' wild

Down In Portugal
Look at that girl 
She's got tears in her eyes
Silver sunglasses 
And a face that smiles
Look at that girl 
Being afraid of a war
painting her nails
For her drink at the bar 

I could swear I love her, but I don't have proof
I could swear I love her, but I don’t have proof

Down in Portugal 
She's taking a ride
Like a movie star
Down the coastline
All the hard luck sailors 
Wait for her in line 
At the slavery harbor 
In the morning time

I could swear I love her, but I don't have proof
I could swear I love her, but I don’t have proof

Look at me baby
It’s all right in my eyes
If you don’t turn around
It might simply pass you by

I'm stranded at
This old beach house
Look at the sun
A car leaves town 
Might just be her
Passing through
‘Bout certain things
I ain’t too sure

These chained ghosts floating all around
A fog topping the mount

I could swear I love her, but I don’t have proof
I could swear I love her, but I don’t have proof

Look at me baby
It’s all right in my eyes
If you don’t turn around
It might simply pass you by

Heavyweight Woman
Woman I'm having bad dreams lying in our bed
Are you crazy to call me that name those things should never be said
Didn't I give you everything before everything turned all bad
We’re painting Rorschach pictures on the sheets

She’s my heavyweight woman
And we kiss on the clouds
O’r Amazonian rainforests
While the pistol shots shout
She's got a mind like a conquistador
Manipulator of crowds
She's a salvation army
With their horns playing loud
She’s my heavyweight woman

Woman why are you treating me like that?
Weren't the circumstances mad enough before those things I've said
It doesn't really make sense, it never did
We’re reading signs in traces on the streets

She’s my heavyweight woman
And we kiss on the clouds
O’r Amazonian rainforests
While the pistol shots shout
She's got a mind like a conquistador
Manipulator of crowds
She's a salvation army
With their horns playing loud
She’s my heavyweight woman

How do you sleep? (how do you sleep)
With your sad seaside eyes (sad seaside eyes)
So easy to be held (easy to be held)
So cool with yourself

She’s my heavyweight woman
And we kiss on the clouds
O’r Amazonian rainforests
While the pistol shots shout
She's got a mind like a conquistador
Manipulator of crowds
She's a salvation army
With their horns playing loud
She’s my heavyweight woman


Sweet Marie
Late by nighttime we shall meet at your place
Just as sacred as the holy garden gates
You turned me on then you turned away
Showed up with your feathered hair
Your shadowy eyes that brilliant disguise 
That we wear

You told me you were a queen from the sea
I told you so many different kinds of things
About stormy weather and ships coming in
Sailors praying and blue angels' sin
That striped tattered shirt resembling a skirt
Over your knee

Oh Marie sweet Marie 
How could I not see
How they took you away and finally made
You believe that we could not be saved

I’m no different than you told me to be
I’m no different than the other worker bee
I was always a gathering of dust
You were always an object of lust
Maybe there’s more than that flattering score
But hey we’ll see

Oh Marie sweet Marie
How could I not see
How I took you away and finally made 
You believe that we could not be saved  

Trouble
Pseudo law enforcement will enforce the law
Psychic philanthropists fill their trophy jar
Sunlight flashes dimly on the freezing tar
Laser beams tear flashing and the rhythm parts

Trouble I ain't feeling scared
Trouble is a skin I wear
Trouble is a blue sunrise 
Trouble is a lonesome rhyme 

I loved the lady more than any other thought
I thought I wanted more love than a thousand thoughts
So if you're up for love better do it with haste
I don’t think you’re having too much time to waste

Trouble is a thing to share
Trouble are the boots I wear
Trouble doesn't faze me none
To trouble town my heart has gone

I'm petrified in about two hours I’ll simply quit
Everything must pass sometimes it needs a hit
The moon was hidden deep last night was black and slow
Everything returns and everything must glow

Trouble is a witty ride
Trouble is a thing I like
Trouble’s gonna get me high
Trouble is a lonesome rhyme
Don't Be So Mad
Don’t be so mad I only want you to love me
Don’t be so mad you’re the cause of it all
Don’t be so mad I am not gonna hurt you
Don’t be so mad no don’t be so cruel

When I was a young boy
They taught me and everybody knows
There’re children selling guns to the bums on skid row
Who sell their kidneys to get a loan
They’re only providing for their beloved families
A thing neither of us has ever done
So don’t don’t don’t

Don’t be so mad I only want you to love me
Don’t be so mad you’re the cause of it all
Those are the stars and here is a rainbow
Don’t be so mad
no no no
It's not that bad at all

When I was a sailor
I built an empire that spanned the seas
Trade started blooming markets were booming
Like mono-crops and viral disease
Honey this postcolonial order is a sad sad business
But it’s not what’s going on ‘tween you and me
So don’t don’t don’t

Sure the world is mad 
Yeah it’s so bad 
Yeah alright
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time” (- Charles Bukowski, Women)


Those are the stars and here is a rainbow
Don’t be so mad it’s not that bad at all

A Night In Babylon
Was heading into Babylon
With the full moon in my eyes
I didn’t speak to anyone 
No one even came to sight
The square was quiet near big ruin
Just a stray dog barked in fright
I checked into Lorraine hotel
I had you on my mind

A guy named Phillip walked up to me
And he gave me his last bread
Said “Go eat what you need my son
I will have some wine instead.”
We went down to the harbor 
Caught some fish watched the seagulls’ flight
We were quiet for a little while
I had you on my mind

Was leaving town by the break of day
In the early morning light
A woman washed her baby’s clothes 
She was standing by the roadside
Our eyes met for a second
Felt like our souls intertwined
The earth shook for a little while
I had you on my mind

Strange Way To Live
Strange how
The musician dies
Every day a small death
Though the muse abides

Strange how 
He’s sitting in my room
Lost you to a new man
But I don't feel alone

Symbiotic superstitions forming in Plato’s cave
Karma baby karma supersonic midsummer 
Waves crush the beach where we both used to roam
Soaked in the sun covered in foam
What a strange way to live

Strange how
You’re nothing but a verve
Caused by electric currents
Ravaging my nerves 

Strange how
Though you’re not around 
Of all the people that I meet 
The only existence I don’t doubt

Symbiotic superstitions forming in Plato’s cave
Karma baby karma supersonic midsummer 
Waves crush the beach where we both used to roam
Soaked in the sun covered in foam
What a strange way to live

Strange how
Strange how
Strange how
Strange how

Colombia
So the night bursts
And the radiant sparks shove all over me
This is not how it's supposed to work
Just this afternoon
We opened our wounds and stitched as good as possible
Now they're breaking at the seams

Is that the way it's gonna be forever?

Give me shelter
From that storm or from that little wind that already does enough
To roughen me up
Damn this April fools’ weather 
Sun come rain come hail and praise come’n’go
Side by side and all the time

Is that the way it's gonna be forever?

The man inside the mind has lost the melon war
The train has run and crushed the upper class
The mud has dried and died and froze to ice
Step on it to break the heart

Colombia
Is a place far away with green hills and coca leaves
And some vicious criminality 
I chew on that drug
That keeps me sweet keeps me awake on fire
It finally shuts me up

Is that the way it's gonna be forever?

The man inside the mind has lost the melon war
The train has run and crushed the upper class
The mud has dried and died and froze to ice
Step on it to break the heart

Fly
Another town
Another highway
Another time
She came around
We got high 
And we got thirsty
We got it all
And we could fly 

I was so proud how she could see me
In the clouds 
In the sky 
How I could fly
 
Movement cried
Through every city
Constant motion
Through the night

And like aircrafts
And like speed trains
Like freight ships
We could fly

Oh there is a veil around every bride
And in the clouds 
In the sky 
I could fly

She must’ve got stranded
Somewhere on the way
While I was only looking for me 
But I wasn’t looking out for her

So I looked for her
And soon the night fell
And the seagulls
Cried her song

The winds grew
The horns blew
And I knew
She was gone

Oh there is a veil around every bride
Oh it’s such a shame to see her die
Oh I should have looked out 
And I should have smiled
How in the clouds
And in the sky
She could fly